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Recent reports

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Notes on the summer food of the Kestrel in northern Ireland

01 April 1965 Comments Main paper Fakotinnunculusis perhaps the most common member of the Falconiform.es to be found in the British Isles and, as such, its prey in England has been the subject of a number of papers, notably those of Ellis (1946), Davis (i960) and Simms (1961). However, ve...

Studies of less familiars birds: 133. Long-tailed Skua

01 April 1965 Comments Main paper of the four species of skuas off the coasts of the British Isles. Yet it nests no further away than the Hardanger Vidda in south Norway, on virtually the same latitude as Shetland, and from there northwards in a wide belt embracing the highest parts of th...

The Spread of the Collared Dove in Britain and Ireland

01 April 1965 Comments Main paper Streptopelia decaocto has the distinction of being the only species (other than feral ones) which is not included in the 1952 Checklist of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, but which has now been seen within these islands by all bird-watchers with a...

Letters

01 April 1965 Comments Letters Manx Shearwaters as prey of Peregrines Sirs,--A recent note by A. J. Gaston (Brit. Birds, 57: 466-467) stated that there did not appear to be any previous record of the Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus as prey of the Peregrine Fa/co peregrinus in Brit...

Reviews

01 April 1965 Comments Reviews Portrait of a Desert: The Story of an Expedition to Jordan. By Guy Mountfort. Illustrated by Eric Hosking. Collins, London, 1965. 192 pages; 68 plates ( n in colour) incorporating 116 monochrome and 26 colour photos; 8 line-drawings and a map. 36s. This i...

Notes

01 April 1965 Comments Notes Manx Shearwaters and other sea-birds as prey of Peregrines and Golden Eagles.--The following observations may be of interest in view of the recent note by A. J. Gaston (Brit Birds, 5 7: 466-467). On 30th September 1964, at about 2,000 feet on Hallival, Is...

Recent reports: January to mid March

01 April 1965 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary deals with the six or seven weeks from late January to mid-March. It follows on after that in the February issue {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 62-64) and to some extent overlaps with it.So...

Request for information

01 April 1965 Comments Editorials Status of the Wryneck in Britain.--The British Trust for Ornithology is con tinuing for a further year its enquiry into the status of the Wryneck Jyax torquilla in Britain (see Brit. Birds, 57: i 8 5 ) i n t h e hope of obtaining more information than was...

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